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Article: Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community.(Book Review)
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- The Oral History Review
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- June 22, 2002
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By Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 217 pp. Hardbound $29.95; Softbound $14.95.
This fine dissertation, which won the 1996 Wesley-Logan Prize for African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association, examines the westward migration of thousands of African-American women and their families during World War II. It traces the migration in six slim yet empirically saturated chapters, from growing up in the Jim Crow South in the early 1900s to the settlement and establishment of black communities in the San Francisco East Bay area in the war and postwar years. The well-crafted narrative and analysis are ...